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White anxiety and Black scholarship: let non-whites be humans
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While the previous piece (“The Pyramid Scheme of White Academia: One disciplinary machinery runs across British higher education — What varies is who you are”) focused mainly...
The Pyramid Scheme of White Academia
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Edit: This piece has been updated: 4 September 2026
There is an issue with elite institutions deploying tokenism to appoint non‑white scholars and staff—often categorised under the BAME label—who, though n...
The Sovereignty Premium: Realpolitik and the Fallacy of Selective Moralism
Islamabad peace talks billboard (Reuters, via BBC)
The narrative that international diplomacy operates as a moral reward system is a persistent illusion. A recent commentary by Mirza R. Ahmad, “Diplomacy Demands Credibility. Pakistan Has N...
Strategic sovereignty in an age of turmoil
Ismail Y Syed's latest in The Financial Express (BD): in a post-international law world and weaponisation of US sanctions, Bangladesh must reduce reliance on US dollar & US tech. Article shown below
Ismail Y Syed’s Desk is a reader-support...
A Green Win in Hackney, and a Red Card for Labour
From Palestine activism to community mobilisation, this result shows old loyalties are no longer guaranteed
The 2026 England’s local election spoke many wonders. A Green victory in the London’s borough Hackney—one of the safest boroughs fo...
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Scholar with interest in law, religion and philosophy; Arabic and Urdu literature; international law and human rights. Also specialised in Muslim law/Mufti. Follow me on X (formerly Twitter) @IsmailYSyed or Bluesky @ismailysyed.bsky.social
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